Politics/Religion Consolidated Megathread Extravaganza

[Garraty_47]

Rahm Emmanuel is considering a presidential run in 2028.

Of course he is.
If it wasn't for bad ideas the democrats wouldn't have any ideas at all. I won't be surprised if they throw Kopmala, EliSssssssabeth Warren, and Sneaky Pete Buttigieg in the ring as well. Fuck it... let Hillary give it another whirl too. Wankers.

[Herman]

It looks like Russia will agree to a ceasefire.

[Reggie Essent]

It looks like Russia will agree to a ceasefire.

Of course they will.  The American Gravy Train is being cut off ... and don't think the Russians weren't grifting from us too.

[DKG]

A federal judge has ruled that tens of thousands of employees summarily fired by the Trump administration must be rehired - that is if they even want to return to their jobs.

District Court for the Northern District of California Judge William Alsup ruled that the Departments of Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and the Treasury needed to "immediately" offer the terminated employees their jobs back,

[Brent]

It looks like it will be a minority government. That means a Mark Czarney and NDP coalition. In other words a fourth Trudeau term.

The problem is that, as the world's pre-eminent corporate lobbyist for global carbon taxes and reducing Canada's industrial greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, Carney supports policies that will be bad for all Canadians.

In this context, Carney is Justin Trudeau version 2.0.

His promise to "scrap" Trudeau's "consumer carbon tax" is misleading because he will actually fold it into Trudeau's industrial carbon tax, which will hide its true costs from Canadians.

He has yet to explain how reforms he says he will make to "improve and tighten" Trudeau's industrial carbon tax will transform it into a magical tax that will make "big polluters" pay without passing along their increased costs to Canadians in the form of higher prices for goods and services.

Carney will also introduce a second carbon tax — a tariff Canadians will pay on many imported goods — described as a "border adjustment mechanism."

That Carney is advocating a new tariff on Canadians at the same time that U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing new and unjustified tariffs on Canadians defies logic and reason.

[Thiel]

It looks like it will be a minority government. That means a Mark Czarney and NDP coalition. In other words a fourth Trudeau term.

The problem is that, as the world's pre-eminent corporate lobbyist for global carbon taxes and reducing Canada's industrial greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, Carney supports policies that will be bad for all Canadians.

In this context, Carney is Justin Trudeau version 2.0.

His promise to "scrap" Trudeau's "consumer carbon tax" is misleading because he will actually fold it into Trudeau's industrial carbon tax, which will hide its true costs from Canadians.

He has yet to explain how reforms he says he will make to "improve and tighten" Trudeau's industrial carbon tax will transform it into a magical tax that will make "big polluters" pay without passing along their increased costs to Canadians in the form of higher prices for goods and services.

Carney will also introduce a second carbon tax — a tariff Canadians will pay on many imported goods — described as a "border adjustment mechanism."

That Carney is advocating a new tariff on Canadians at the same time that U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing new and unjustified tariffs on Canadians defies logic and reason.

Pierre Polivere needs to get out there and talk to people like he had been doing. He has a much better plan for Canadian prosperity than Mark Carney does. Canadians should know their choices.

[Herman]

US. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy enraged democRATs Thursday by revealing he has struck a deal with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to tackle some of the inefficiencies that have left the Postal Service a financially nonviable organization with a "broken business model" that "experienced close to $100 billion in losses and was projected to lose another $200 billion."

The USPS, an organization with 635,000 employees, reported a net loss of $9.5 billion in fiscal year 2024 and and a net loss of $6.5 billion in 2023. The organization warned last year that unless it continued to cut costs or received a taxpayer-funded bailout, it was headed for extinction.

[DKG]

The Senate approved a House-passed bill on Friday to extend government funding by six months, hours before a shutdown deadline. After days of speculation about its ultimate fate in the upper chamber, the Senate agreed to final passage of the bill in a 54–46 vote. The legislation now heads to the desk of President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it.

Though a handful of Democrats voted to advance the bill earlier the same day, only Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Angus King (I-Vt.) supported final passage. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only Republican to oppose the package, citing budget concerns.

The legislation, which passed the House on March 11 in a 217–213 vote, extends government funding through Sept. 30, the final day of the fiscal year. It increases defense spending by about $6 billion while cutting non-defense spending by $13 billion compared to last year's levels. Overall, the measure reduces spending by about $7 billion from the previous year.

[Garraty_47]

As usual the democrats made a lot of "resistance" noises with their face holes before helping the republicans' bill go to a vote they knew would result in the bill's passage.

They are all on the same team... they only wear two different colored hats. They make a big production of "opposing" each other on issues that don't fundamentally change anything but smoothly close ranks when it's time to protect and perpetuate the status quo.

#TranscendTheDuopoly

[Reggie Essent]

As usual the democrats made a lot of "resistance" noises with their face holes before helping the republicans' bill go to a vote they knew would result in the bill's passage.

They are all on the same team... they only wear two different colored hats. They make a big production of "opposing" each other on issues that don't fundamentally change anything but smoothly close ranks when it's time to protect and perpetuate the status quo.

#TranscendTheDuopoly

I think Trump's kinda already transcended the Duopoloy, brother Garraty. This latest example with the CR was Trump putting the forces of the "Duopoly Resistance" once again into a lose/lose position. If the CR didn't pass, the government "shuts down" and the Executive Branch then has the power all alone to determine what is essential and what is not.

With the prospect of DOGE and an image of Elon with his chain saw in their minds, the Deep Statists had no choice but to pass the CR.

Trump wins in either case and the work of DOGE will continue apace.

[Brent]

Donald Trump said the Biden pardons were void because Joe Biden signed them with an autopen.

[DKG]

Unelected, unaccountable, and out of control — the federal judiciary has taken power it was never meant to have. Trump's response will define his administration.
If a federal judge told President Trump to deliver a specifically curated speech and then pull down his pants on live television, should he comply? If he refused, would that trigger a "constitutional crisis"? If you pay attention to the left, the answer might very well be "yes"!

The only "constitutional crisis" we face is the erroneous idea that the judiciary is atop the food chain rather than on equal footing with the other two branches of government. If Trump hopes to succeed this time around, he had better remind the judiciary of its impotence to enforce unconstitutional edicts.

[DKG]

A pollution tariff would be a powerful tool, forcing China to pay for its lower environmental standards while leveling the playing field for American manufacturers.

In 2020, then-U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer proposed to the World Trade Organization that failing to enforce minimum environmental standards should qualify as an "actionable subsidy," allowing the U.S. to counter it with tariffs.

[DKG]

Russia has agreed to the same ceasefire deal that Ukraine has accepted.